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Steven Nadler explores an intriguing episode in early modern intellectual history the expulsion of the great philosopher Spinoza from his Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam. Why was Spinoza excommunicated? Nadler's investigation of this simple question gives fascinating new perspectives on Spinoza's thought and the Jewish religious and philosophical tradition from which it arose. - ;At the heart of Spinoza's Heresy is a mystery why was Baruch Spinoza so harshly excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community at the age of twenty-four? In this philosophical sequel to his acclaimed, award-winning biography of the seventeenth-century thinker, Steven Nadler argues that Spinoza's main offence was a denial of the immortality of the soul. But this only deepens the mystery. For there is no specific Jewish dogma regarding immortality there is nothing that a Jew is required to believe about the soul and the afterlife. It was, however, for various religious, historical and political reasons, simply the wrong issue to pick on in Amsterdam in the 1650s. After considering the nature of the ban, or cherem, as a disciplinary tool in the Sephardic community, and a number of possible explanations for Spinoza's ban, Nadler turns to the variety of traditions in Jewish religious thought on the postmortem fate of a person's soul. This is followed by an examination of Spinoza's own views on the eternity of the mind and the role that that the denial of personal immortality plays in his overall philosophical project. Nadler argues that Spinoza's beliefs were not only an outgrowth of his own metaphysical principles, but also a culmination of an intellectualist trend in Jewish rationalism. - ;Review from previous edition Nadler's book is an admirable piece of work. It relates Spinoza's thought to a wide variety of contexts, each of which enriches our understanding of Spinoza. It is clearly written and highly readable, continuing the story begun in Nadler's earlier Spinoza A Life. It will be mandatory reading for students of Spinoza, as well as for students of Jewish thought and history more generally. - Martin Lin, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Steven Nadler,Spinoza's Heresy Immortality and the Jewish Mind,Oxford University Press UK,0199268878,Great Britain/British Isles,History Surveys - General,History of ideas, intellectual history,Jewish studies,Judaism - History,LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General,Language Arts Disciplines/Linguistics - General,Linguistics - General,Non-Fiction,PHILOSOPHY / History Surveys / General,Philosophy,Philosophy of religion,Philosophy/History Surveys - Modern,RELIGION / Judaism / History,UNIVERSITY PRESS,Western philosophy c 1600 to c 1900,World history c 1750 to c 1900

Spinoza Heresy Immortality and the Jewish Mind Steven Nadler Books Reviews :

Steven Nadler explores an intriguing episode in early modern intellectual history the expulsion of the great philosopher Spinoza from his Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam. Why was Spinoza excommunicated? Nadler's investigation of this simple question gives fascinating new perspectives on Spinoza's thought and the Jewish religious and philosophical tradition from which it arose. - ;At the heart of Spinoza's Heresy is a mystery why was Baruch Spinoza so harshly excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community at the age of twenty-four? In this philosophical sequel to his acclaimed, award-winning biography of the seventeenth-century thinker, Steven Nadler argues that Spinoza's main offence was a denial of the immortality of the soul. But this only deepens the mystery. For there is no specific Jewish dogma regarding immortality there is nothing that a Jew is required to believe about the soul and the afterlife. It was, however, for various religious, historical and political reasons, simply the wrong issue to pick on in Amsterdam in the 1650s. After considering the nature of the ban, or cherem, as a disciplinary tool in the Sephardic community, and a number of possible explanations for Spinoza's ban, Nadler turns to the variety of traditions in Jewish religious thought on the postmortem fate of a person's soul. This is followed by an examination of Spinoza's own views on the eternity of the mind and the role that that the denial of personal immortality plays in his overall philosophical project. Nadler argues that Spinoza's beliefs were not only an outgrowth of his own metaphysical principles, but also a culmination of an intellectualist trend in Jewish rationalism. - ;Review from previous edition Nadler's book is an admirable piece of work. It relates Spinoza's thought to a wide variety of contexts, each of which enriches our understanding of Spinoza. It is clearly written and highly readable, continuing the story begun in Nadler's earlier Spinoza A Life. It will be mandatory reading for students of Spinoza, as well as for students of Jewish thought and history more generally. - Martin Lin, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Steven Nadler,Spinoza's Heresy Immortality and the Jewish Mind,Oxford University Press UK,0199268878,Great Britain/British Isles,History Surveys - General,History of ideas, intellectual history,Jewish studies,Judaism - History,LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General,Language Arts Disciplines/Linguistics - General,Linguistics - General,Non-Fiction,PHILOSOPHY / History Surveys / General,Philosophy,Philosophy of religion,Philosophy/History Surveys - Modern,RELIGION / Judaism / History,UNIVERSITY PRESS,Western philosophy c 1600 to c 1900,World history c 1750 to c 1900

Spinoza's Heresy Immortality and the Jewish Mind (0000199268878) Steven Nadler Books

 

Product details Paperback 244 pages Publisher Oxford University Press UK (February 26, 2004) Language English ISBN-10 0199268878

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